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Henry Logan's life has been filled with special achievements. On Wednesday, he'll add another.

Logan is the former Stephens-Lee standout who became the first African-American collegiate athlete to play at a predominantly white institution in the southeastern United States when he enrolled at Western Carolina University in 1964.

On Wednesday evening, he'll attend a reception in Raleigh for the Class of 2018 of The Heritage Calendar: Celebrating the North Carolina African-American Experience.

The publication annually features 12 individuals who "have made a lasting impact in North Carolina and across the country," according to the organization.

Logan became a star at Western Carolina, then a member of the NAIA. A 6-foot guard, he scored 3,290 points in his career, averaging 30.7 points per game. During his senior season, he scored 1,049 points while leading the nation with a scoring average of 36.2 points per game.

He also played for the gold medal-winning U.S. men's basketball team in the Pan Am Games in 1967.

After graduating, Logan played two seasons in the ABA. He spent his rookie season with the Oakland Oaks, averaging 12.5 points per game while helping to lead the team to the ABA championship.He played for the Washington Caps the next season and averaged 9.7 points per game.

In 2000, Logan was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame; other members of his induction class were Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson.

Now 71 and still an Asheville resident, Logan will be joined on the 2018 Heritage Calendar by such people as Pro Football Hall of Famer Elvin Bethea, former Supreme Court of North Carolina justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson, national ballet star Mel Tomlinson and Dr. Frederick D. Burroughs, the first board-eligible African-American pediatrician in Raleigh.